To Pause genymotion Android Emulator on Mac:
- Press the power button of emulator (bottom right corner)
- This is equivalent to executing “avd stop” within adb shell on the emulator
- Find the process ID number of VBoxHeadless using Activity Monitor
- In Terminal: kill -STOP <ID number from step 2>
- Your emulator is now effectively paused and uses no CPU
To Restart / Unpause Android Emulator
- In Terminal: kill -CONT <ID number from step 2 above>
- Press the power button on emulator (bottom right corner of window)
- Your emulator is now restarted & should operate normally